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Horace Edward Aubertine

Teacher, College of Education

   

  

Horace Aubertine

  

July 13, 2020

Horace Edward Aubertine, 94, passed away on July 13, 2020. He entered the Air Force and served during World War II. Upon his discharge, he returned to school and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters Degree in History. Horace continued his education at Stanford University by first obtaining a Masters Degree in Education and then a Doctorate in Education. He taught at the high school and college levels over the course of five decades. He taught at Menlo Atherton High School, and he was a professor at Whitman College, where he and Dwight Allen developed the concept of micro-teaching. He went on to teach at ASU and Colorado State University before becoming a Dean and the Coordinator of Teacher Education at Illinois State University. Later in his career, he returned to his first passion of teaching high school students, most recently at Willamette High School in Eugene, Oregon. He coached baseball at many levels, including the high school level. To the players he was known as "Coach A." He retired from teaching in 2009. Horace is survived by his wife, Shirley Hale Aubertine, three sons and a granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Barbara Lee (Geiger) Aubertine. The family asks that any donations may be made to the Stanford University Department of Education in Memory of Dr. Horace E. Aubertine. (Source: Arizona Republic)